Failing to send email with the Python example

Question

I\'ve been trying (and failing) to figure out how to send email via Python.

Trying the example from here: http://docs.python.org/library/smtplib.html#smtplib.SMTP

Answer 1

Here's a simple throw away solution. Meant to paste this earlier, but fell asleep at my chair.

import smtplib
import email
import os

username = "user@gmail.com"
passwd = "password"

def mail(to, subject, text, attach):
   msg = MIMEMultipart()

   msg['From'] = username
   msg['To'] = to
   msg['Subject'] = subject

   msg.attach(MIMEText(text)) 

   part = MIMEBase('application', 'octet-stream')
   part.set_payload(open(attach, 'rb').read())
   Encoders.encode_base64(part)
   part.add_header('Content-Disposition',
           'attachment; filename="%s"' % os.path.basename(attach))
   msg.attach(part)

   server = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 495)
   server.ehlo()
   server.starttls()
   server.ehlo()
   server.login(username, passwd)
   server.sendmail(username, to, msg.as_string())
   server.close()

mail("you", "hi", "hi", "webcam.jpg")

It's my assumption that most people on this thread that have had successful attempts with their code aren't on win32. ;)

*edit: See http://docs.python.org/library/email-examples.html for some good "official" examples.